Top 1200 Our Father Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I identify my humour quotient with that of my father's. He used to love British comedies. Also, when it comes to fitness, my father was a sportsman and I too was into sports as a child.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's philosophy and life.

I have a brother and we lost our father when I was 15. And that was a big emotional upheaval in my life.

Our Heavenly Father can appreciate our love for Him by how well we serve Him and how well we serve our fellowmen.

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.

What is special about the House of Marley is that it's my father's vision that guides our production process.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.

I just think it's so nice that naturally all my siblings and my father and I have our own taste in music.

Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.

It was very important to my father-in-law that we didn't feel like we deserted our base of voters.

Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

My father's music was about revolution and changing the hearts and minds of people through love and the deliverance of everyone. We hope our brothers and sisters will follow our path and really start to consider ecology and utilizing material that benefits not only yourself but the people.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #? prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #? Heaven .

Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.

In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

I ask one more thing from our father above - God save Bolivia.

A mortal parent may appreciate, in some small way, the feelings of a loving Heavenly Father. When our children come to the age when they must leave our direct care, we feel anxiety for their safety and concern that those who are to help them will not fail them.

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father but does not give to Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an impostor and his father is the devil.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

Ben Cartwright was patterned after my father, who never saw 'Bonanza.' In that sense, my father will live for a long time.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity